Chapter 17: Henry waits in the trenches in the middle of the battle in anger. He is still angry of the choice that he ran from the battle the day before. Preparing his weapon for the next battle, Henry suddenly heard gunshots go off in the battle and he started to shoot his rifle in a frenzy. When shooting in a frenzy, he noticed that almost nobody in his regiment is shooting but himself. One of the soldiers told Henry that he is shooting at nothing.…
Myra Munroe Professor Kate Oubre, Ph.D. English 240 12 October, 2015 Mean Spirit is a novel that uses storytelling to teach us about a time in history when Native Americans were killed to satisfy the White peoples need for wealth. Linda Hogan use of fiction to relay history has created a masterpiece that stimulates the mind and teaches us lessons about our past that have all but been forgotten. The history of these atrocities should not be forgotten so that it is not repeated. I believe that the author is trying to show us just how much history and storytelling are interconnected. We have no way of deciphering how much of our historical record is fact and how much is fiction.…
Philip Caputo’s A Rumor of War tells the story of a man’s demoralization during the Vietnam war and how it is associated with a refusal to any direct guilt for his own actions in that war. Throughout the book, you can sense the murderousness that comes from Caputo due to several reasons. Although, at the end of the book, he does not confess this murderousness urge that he experienced during his time in Vietnam. Overall, I believe that Philip Caputo was able to prove that he is not guilty and that he is a victim to the U.S. government and the U.S. military as well as the environment of Vietnam, and the relentlessness of combat training. Coming straight out of his own mouth, Caputo was able to prove compelling evidence that these forces developed…
“Murder at the Margin” starts off with a professor from Harvard University Henry Spearman, who taught economics, him and his wife both, were going on vacation to Cinnamon Bay. While on a ferry that was taking them to the island, they meet an old coworker, Professor Mathew Dyke who teaches theology at Harvard. While the Spearman’s were on the islands they meet different type of people. They met a Supreme Court retiree Justice Foote and his wife. Then Mr. and Mrs. Doakes but Mr. Doakes had a strange breakfast ritual.…
Westerbork transit camp is a camp where many people got taken over also were many people were killed and sacrificed to death. And another thing about westerbork camp is that westerbork camp had about 750 refugees in the camp. And that westerbork transit camp is a way different thing among all the other camps because the other camps didn't have much of what westerbork transit camp has today. On 1st December,1948 the ministry of war took over camp westerbork. The two major military offensive had started in the former Dutch East Indies, putting a great strain on the few military camp in the Netherlands.…
Giovanni Morreti was satisfied with his life. He avoided getting involved in the war between good and evil but when his only friend Ares calls he is unable to refuse. He travels to San Francisco in search of a witch that possess the power to help restores Ares’s nephew Hale’s soul. The last thing he expected to discover was this stubborn witch to be his mate. Ridge Alder can’t believe what Giovanni is asking of him.…
What was it like to be depressed and all alone at the boundary waters? For Shiloh it would be one of the last days for her. Cork and William are in trouble while trying to find his disappearing daughter, Shiloh. They have trouble finding her but they find her in a hidden cabin all alone. Shiloh is either in trouble or she has committed suicide while she was at her cabin.…
Harpers Island was once a scene of a gruesome series of murders. Now seven years later, family and friend gather on the island for a wedding, but one by one… they begin to die. Harpers Island is about a group of family and friends who travel to a secluded island for a distortion wedding. They’ve come to laugh, to love, and though they don’t know it... To die.…
So, Salander devotes her time to researching Bjurman, but cannot find any particularly incriminating information on him. Frustrated, Salander decides killing him would be the only option because she cannot get him locked up. Salander then starts devoting her time to researching ways to kill Bjurman without linking the death to her; she decides to go with poison. With this in her…
This month’s SSR book I read was The Name of the Star, by Maureen Johnson. This book’s publisher is The Penguin Group and the copyright date is 2011. There are 372 pages in this book. The author’s purpose for this book was caused by her fascination for the mysteries of London. She would into dark alleys with her friends and watch footages taken from a Tube train.…
Tennessee William’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is play about truthfulness, centering on the family’s deception of Big Daddy and his cancer; however, Brick’s struggle with truth remains the largest struggle within the play. After pleading for real, honest conversation and no more mendacity, Big Daddy forces Brick to acknowledge that his disgust, which he has blamed on their family and the lies that he as believed for so long, has nothing to do with the people around him but with himself. Brick’s hatred for pointless conversation and mendacity stems from a deeply rooted hatred for himself and the fact that he is a mendacious person who often leads pointless conversation. Brick struggles with the lies that have surrounded his friendship with Skipper. After Big Daddy comes back from the hospital and finds Brick to be an…
In the beginning of the movie we find out that Benjamin is a war hero turned pacifist due to the death of his wife. He has to raise 7 kids on his own and still tend to his farm with his children’s help , of course,. When they go to charlestown Gabriel spots a militia sign up sheet and says that he wants to join but his father forbids him to. Gabriel goes against his father’s command and signs up anyway. Fast forward to a year later Gabe comes back to the plantation seriously wounded with the militia with him.…
Inciting Event In 1893 the whole of United States celebrates the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the America's and the World's Columbian Exposition opens to waiting public. In the nearby Chicago community of Englewood resides a businessman, a doctor, and the United States first documented serial killer, Dr. H.H. Holmes. First Plot Point As the trains which shall overwhelm Chicago with tourist and people seeking new opportunities so is it occupied by predators seeking easy prey.…
Max and his dad have been looking for the myth of the cure of the death plague. They have had to fight off people with the plague, and people trying to find the plague cure to keep and use it all for themselves. Max and his dad have the equipment and tools to mass produce the cure, and all they want to do is help all people. But all the people don't want them to help. Before the plague the family has been outcast from society.…
People respond differently to situations, depending on their morals. In The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, the town's people's morals are shown through their reactions to hearing about Kinkaid’s murder. A messenger tells the men about Kinkaid being shot and his cattle taken. They form a posse and kill the men they think are responsible. The sheriff tells them they killed the wrong people.…